Firefox can be much faster on Linux! Let’s speed up Firefox on Linux system. Part 1 and 2 only config firefox, so it can also be used on other platform such as Windows. 1. Pipe-lining network connection Most of us use a broad band width network, then why not pip line the connection from Firefox?
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Sending Email Using mailx/s-nail in Linux Through Gmail SMTP
Posted onThe heirloom mailx (or s-nail if you are using Ubuntu 18 or later or similar releases) command in Linux is still providing service for guys like me, especially when we need to send email automatically by script. Gmail is great. Now, how to use gmail’s smtp in mailx/mail? gmail is a little special since gmail’s
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Setting Up Linux Network Gateway Using iptables and route
Posted onSharing the networking is important and setting up a gateway is a good solution to it. Building up the gateway on a Linux box is easy, cost efficient and reliable. With a Linux box, you can share the internet connection or the only cable connected to the network. The Linux box network configuration The Linux
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How to Set Up Socks Proxy Using SSH Tunnel
Posted onWe can set up a socks proxy on top of a SSH tunnel. Besides the common proxy functions, such as web browsing, the proxy on top of SSH tunnel also ensures the security between the browser and the proxy server (the SSH server). In this post, we introduce and explain how to set up a
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Minimizes Thunderbird Windows into the System Tray
Posted onI usually keep Thunderbird open when my computer is open. But Thunderbird is minimized to the taskbar. It will be more convenient if it is minimized or closed to the system tray as an icon.It will be better if it can display the number of unread messages. Mozilla’s software’s addon system give the method to
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Installing NVIDIA Driver in Fedora
Posted onUsing rpmfusion’s rpm packages to install NVIDIA driver in Fedora is introduced in this post. First, check the proper drivers for the card on [1]. 1. Add rpmfusion. Enable RPM Fusion repositories 2. Install the driver # yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia The reboot system. 3. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf # nvidia-xconfig The nouveau module conflicts with the
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How to Create ISO Image from DVD Disk on Linux
Posted onDVD disks are still commonly used in some areas while the disks are not fast and convenient enough for frequent usage. For frequent usage or archiving, an image of the DVD on hard drives will be better. ISO images do not use a particular container format. They are just a sector-by-sector copy of the data
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Compiz-fusion on Fedora
Posted on1. Install relevant packages #yum install ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-gconf fusion-icon-gtk emerald compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-gnome libcompizconfig compiz-gnome compiz-bcop compiz compizconfig-python compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome 2. Start compiz-fusion by using command “fusion-icon”. It can be found in “Applications -> system tools -> fusion-icon”. It will be more convenient if “fusion-icon” is added to autostart list by adding a entry in
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Create and Manage Virtual Machines on Xen
Posted onIn this post, these content are introduced: Create and manage file-backed virtual block device (VBD) for virtual machines on xen. Install Fedora 11 via internet as DomU on top of xen. Manage virtual machines using xm. Create file-backed VBD: The actual space of VBD will be the amount of disk the virtual machine used. And
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Beautiful Desktop – Gnome 2 of OSX style on Linux
Posted onScreenshots of the desktop: Metacity theme: Humanoid-OSX-Blend GTK 2.x theme: OSX-theme-mod 0.9 GNOME Icon: OSX 3.3 X11 Mouse theme: MacOSX PantherX Mouse Theme[For Baghira] 1.1 Wallpaper: Elementary The system: Fedora 10 Gnome 2.24.3 Updated on 6 Mar. 2010. Screenshots added.
Converting Movie Files to wav and mp3 Files Using MPlayer and LAME
Posted onAs a multimedia enthusiast, you may want to convert your movie files to audio files for various reasons such as creating soundtracks, audio books or listening to dialogues & music without the video. Converting movie files to WAV and MP3 files using MPlayer and LAME is a simple and straightforward process. By following the steps
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Moved back to WordPress from MediaWiki
Posted onWordPress is so missed for many great features and plugins. Hence, we moved the site back to the WordPress system on Jul. 12, 2013. MediaWiki is great but, for this site, WordPress is a better solution. The so missed features of WordPress Related posts via the YARPP Plugin. URLs without strongly mapped to the title
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How to Run a cron Job Every Two Weeks / Months / Days
Posted onWe may want to run some jobs for every two weeks/months/days… under some situation such as backing up for every other week. In addition, we may add more complex rules for running jobs, e.g. run a command when the load of the server is higher than a certain level. With the help of the shell
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Storage Architecture and Challenges by Andrew Fikes at Google Faculty Summit 2010
Posted onStorage Architecture and Challenges in Faculty Summit, July 29, 2010, by Andrew Fikes, Principal Engineer. Download PDF (from archive.org). This slides introduces some of Google’s storage systems with insights and discussion of problems.
Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems
Posted onDesigns, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems by Jeaf Dean. Everyone who is interested in large distributed systems should read: PDF for Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems by Jeaf Dean.
PUMA: A MapReduce Benchmark Suite
Posted onMapReduce is a well-known programming model designed for generating and processing large data. There are various MapReduce implementations. One widely known and used one may be Hadoop. Benchmarking MapReduce frameworks gets to be important. Faraz Ahmad et al. developed a benchmark suite: PUMA MapReduce Benchmark. During our work on MapReduce, we developed a benchmark suite
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Hadoop TeraSort Benchmark
Posted onTeraSort is one of Hadoop’s widely used benchmarks. Hadoop’s distribution contains both the input generator and sorting implementations: the TeraGen generates the input and TeraSort conducts the sorting. Here, we provide a short tutorial for using the Hadoop TeraSort benchmark. TeraGen generates random data that can be used as input data for a subsequent running
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Large-scale Data Storage and Processing System in Datacenters
Posted onResearch on Cloud Computing has made big progresses and many excellent large-scale systems have been designed in recent years. I compiled a list of some large-scale data storage and processing systems in datacenters as follows. Storage systems Google File System (GFS): http://research.google.com/archive/gfs.html HDFS implementation: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.2/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsDesign.html Colossus (GFS2): Colossus: Successor to the Google File System (GFS)
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Microsofts Cosmos Service
Posted onCosmos is “Microsoft’s internal data storage/query system for analyzing enormous amounts (as in petabytes) of data”. There is no paper/technical report about Cosmos published yet. I compiled a list of information about Cosmos on the Web as follows. What is Microsoft’s Cosmos service? by Yaron Y. Goland. Microsoft Cosmos: Petabytes perfectly processed perfunctorily by Seth
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Colossus: Successor to the Google File System (GFS)
Posted onColossus is the successor to the Google File System (GFS) as mentioned in the paper on Spanner at OSDI 2012. Colossus is also used by spanner to store its tablets. The information about Colossus is slim compared with GFS which is published in the paper at SOSP 2003. There is still some information about Colossus
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